{"id":7658,"date":"2026-05-01T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/7658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:52:09","slug":"michael-van-gerwen-punched-during-bar-attack-in-netherlands-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/7658\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael van Gerwen punched during bar attack in Netherlands &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch darts star Michael van Gerwen was punched in the face by a stranger at a bar in the Netherlands on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/c74r890wnd2o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared online shows van Gerwen speaking with a man and a woman inside a bar in the city of Den Bosch during King\u2019s Day, a national public holiday in the Netherlands, before the confrontation occurred.<\/p>\n<p><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not sure why Michael Van Gerwen has been punched, MVG didn\u2019t look to be doing much wrong. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WdgJczRiSX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WdgJczRiSX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stockport871 (@stockport871) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stockport871\/status\/2049894187433156708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 30, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The video appears to show the man suddenly striking van Gerwen in the face. Security staff then intervened and pulled the attacker away, while the darts player briefly chased him across the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gerwen, a former world number one, later told Dutch sports website Sportnieuws.nl that the attacker \u201cclearly had too much to drink\u201d and said the aggression seemed to come \u201cout of nowhere.\u201d He added that the man later apologised via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/instagram-s-new-push-for-authenticity-cracking-down-on-unoriginal-photo-posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old said he has decided not to press charges, while also acknowledging his own reaction in pursuing the attacker, describing it as an \u201cautomatic response of shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened shortly before van Gerwen returned to Premier League Darts action in Aberdeen on Thursday, where he lost 6\u20133 to Luke Humphries in their quarter-final match.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most successful players in darts history, van Gerwen held the world number one ranking between 2014 and 2021, winning multiple major titles, including five consecutive Masters tournaments. He has won 48 major singles titles, placing him second on the all-time list behind England\u2019s Phil Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch darts star Michael van Gerwen was punched in the face by a stranger at a bar in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[998,3919,3467,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-incident","10":"tag-michael-van-gerwen","11":"tag-netherlands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}